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Height: 45 millimetres

Diameter: 81 millimetres

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Published PDF date : 18thCRoom 95 label text:

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Cup with incised lotuses

Potters incised this cup with a pattern of lotuses – a Chinese symbol of purity. Craftsmen in the late Ming and Qing dynasties made copies of Ding wares at Jingdezhen in Jiangxi province, Zhangzhou in Fujian province and in other southern kilns. The cup is chalky white or ‘rice–coloured’ and potters covered it either with a white slip and a thin transparent glaze with a yellowish cast that crackled during the cooling process or with an opaque white glaze. Connoisseurs once called this type of ceramic 土定 (tu ding ‘earthen Ding ware’).